Please silently read for 10 minutes. If you checked out or brought a physical book you may relocate within the room.

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11/25/2016

-Silent Reading

-Plan Your Interview

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What is StoryCorps?

What is StoryCorps?

StoryCorps is an American non-profit organization whose mission is to record, preserve, and share the stories of Americans from all backgrounds and beliefs.

What is StoryCorps?

What is the Great Thanksgiving Listen

Example

Example

What Will you Do?

1.Use the StoryCorps App on your phone, device or chromebook to interview an older relative over Thanksgiving break.

2. With your permission the interview will be archived at the Library of Congress for future generations to hear. Segments of the interview may air nationally on NPR’s Morning Edition.

3. On Classroom you will post a link to your interview on StoryCorps website so your teacher and classmates can listen to it.

What Device Will You Use?

iPhone or iPad- App Store

These are suggested

Android- Play Store

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Desktop, laptop or Chromebook- storycorps.me/register/

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• Use your school email
• Enter your username and password into you Password Keeper doc.

How Do You Do It?

-Follow all the prompts.

-Make sure to add a photo

-After you have recorded your interview you’ll have the choice to:

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1. Publish interview
2. Save to device

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JOIN OUR COMMUNITY BEFORE UPLOADING

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Who Will You Interview?

Advice: Choose a relative that you are interested in;

-either a part of their life (war, illness, life experience, etc.)

-or them in general

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1. Make a list of 3 potential interviewees.
2. Discuss the interviewees with your shoulder buddy.
3. Discuss the interviewees with your family this weekend.

Maybe your weird uncle?

Plan Your Interview

Advice:

1. Decide what kind of interview you want to conduct:

-Conversational

-Do you want you interviewee to ask you questions too?

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2. Decide what issues you want to address:

-Marriage -Kids -Growing Up

-Family Heritage -Religion -Love/ Marriage

-School -War -Illness

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Steps to a Great Interview

Start with this!

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Write Questions

Great Questions for Anyone

• Who has been the most important person in your life? Can you tell me about him or her?
• What was the happiest moment of your life? The saddest?
• Who has been the biggest influence on your life? What lessons did that person teach you?
• Who has been the kindest to you in your life?
• What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?
• What advice would you give to your teenage self?
• What is your earliest memory?
• What is your favorite memory of me?
• Are there any funny stories your family tells about you that come to mind?
• When in life have you felt most alone?

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Write Questions

Great Questions for Anyone

• How would you like to be remembered?
• Do you have any regrets?
• What does your future hold?
• What are your hopes for what the future holds for me? For my children?
• If this was to be our very last conversation, is there anything you’d want to say to me
• For your great great grandchildren listening to this years from now: is there any wisdom you’d want to pass on to them? What would you want them to know?
• Is there anything that you’ve never told me but want to tell me now?
• Is there something about me that you’ve always wanted to know but have never asked?
• If you could hold on to one memory from your life forever, what would that be?
• Are there any funny stories or memories or characters from your life that you want to tell me about?
• What are you proudest of?

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Your Interview

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More Questions and Resources found here.

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Advice

-Ask open ended questions.

-You don’t have to ask all the questions you write down.

-Don’t interrupt; just listen when you get your interviewee talking.

-Ask follow up questions:

- “How did that make you feel?”

- “Could you tell me a little more about that?”

Your Interview

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After you’ve completed your interview please paste a link to it on the form in your Storycorps assignment.

To Do List

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1. Create an account with Storycorps (app or website).
2. Join the Summit Middle School Community.
3. Decide who you want to interview and contact them to make sure they can take part in the interview.
4. Plan your interview:

-When and where will you do it?

-What will you use to record it (app or web-based)?

-Use the provided resources to write interview questions.

5. Test that your equipment works (do a quick audio test but stop short of publishing).

6. Conduct your interview of Thanksgiving break.

7. Once you have published or saved your interview paste a link into the Google Form on Classroom.